mutual admiration society

collocation in English

meaningsofmutual,admirationandsociety

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mutual
adjective
uk
/ˈmjuː.tʃu.əl/us
/ˈmjuː.tʃu.əl/
(of two or more people or groups) feeling the same emotion, or doing the same thing to or for ...
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admiration
noun[U]
uk
/ˌæd.mɪˈreɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌæd.məˈreɪ.ʃən/
the feeling of admiring someone ...
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society
noun
uk
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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A lively and enthusiastic correspondence sprang up between the two men, their relationship developing into something of a mutualadmirationsociety.
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Indeed, one sometimes feels as if one has stumbled into a private party of some mutualadmirationsociety!
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We are in danger of becoming a mutualadmirationsociety.
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This is not, however, a mutualadmirationsociety; we are not collected here to pass compliments to one another.
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It is a legislative assembly, not a mutualadmirationsociety.
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A mutualadmirationsocietywould perhaps better describe the position.
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He then said that we on this side were becoming like a mutualadmirationsociety.
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I hope that we are not a mutualadmirationsociety.
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As we have agreed previously, it is a mutualadmirationsociety.
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I would not describe the coal owners as a mutualadmirationsocietyby any manner of means.
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This mutualadmirationsocietysuggests that between us we must have got something right.
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I shall not develop the mutualadmirationsocietyfurther or it will become dangerous.
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This "live" debate sounded a bit like a mutualadmirationsociety.
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They are confined to a mutualadmirationsocietyand a small clique.
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There is danger in delay and danger in paying lip-service to these ideas and becoming a mutualadmirationsocietyinstead of taking effective action.
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After all, we do not profess to be a mutualadmirationsociety, and if we are to avoid controversy, we shall get nowhere.
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That is where the mutualadmirationsocietyfinishes— it had only a short life.
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We are not members of this mutualadmirationsociety.
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This is not a mutualadmirationsociety.
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I very much regret that we have had to listen to nothing but a mutualadmirationsociety—the back benchers scratching the backs of the front benchers.
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